IN-DTC-32: Laventan, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Borhyaenoidea indet. Ameghino 1894
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 1649
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Drytomomys cf. aequatorialis Anthony 1922
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 943, MUSM 946, MUSM 942
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenidae indet. (Ameghino 1889)
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 1505
unclassified
Protherotheriidae indet.
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 1504
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet. (Burmeister 1879)
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 934
Boreostemma sp. Carlini et al. 2008
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 932, MUSM 933
Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis Croft et al. 2007
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 980 and MUSM 982
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 904
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Urumacotherium sp. Bocquentin-Villanueva 1983
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 985
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Granastrapotherium cf. snorki Johnson and Madden 1997
Specimen MUSM 1477
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Pericotoxodon cf. platignathus Madden 1997
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 1500, MUSM 922,
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Miocochilius anomopodus Stirton 1953
Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
MUSM 986, MUSM 1494
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Ucayali
Coordinates: 10.4° South, 73.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.7° South, 70.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval: Laventan Mammal zone:  Laventan
Age range of interval: 13.7 - 10.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ipururo
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified conglomerate
Environment:foreshore
Geology comments: Vertebrate remains accumulate mainly in Miocene conglomerates from the Ipururo Formation, interpreted as storm deposits channelized in nearshore environment (Espurt et al. 2007, 2010).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: MUSM: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Taxonomic list comments:Fragmentary ectometaloph of a left M3 (MUSM 1477)
Metadata
Database number:144793
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Ceballos, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-05-18 00:10:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-05-18 00:10:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46851. G. Goillot, P. O. Antoine, J. Tejada, F. Pujos, and R. Salas-Gismondi. 2011. Middle Miocene Uruguaytheriinae (Mammalia, Astrapotheria) from Peruvian Amazonia and a review of the astrapotheriid fossil record in northern South America. Geodiversitas 33(2):331-345 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cárdenas]

Secondary references:

53470 J. V. Tejada-Lara, R. Salas-Gismondi, F. Pujos, P. Baby, M. Benammi, S. Brusset, D. Franceschi, N. Espurt, M. Urbina and P.O. Antoine. 2015. Life in the proto-Amazonia: middle Miocene mammals from the Fitzcarrald Arch (Peruvian Amazonia). Palaeontology 1-38 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo/M. Uhen]